Mind Quotes by Samuel Smiles

Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best…

— Samuel Smiles

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

— Samuel Smiles

The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the…

— Samuel Smiles

Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.

— Samuel Smiles

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; whereas, the experience gained from actual life is of…

— Samuel Smiles

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

— Samuel Smiles

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the…

— Samuel Smiles

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

— Samuel Smiles

Those who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

— Samuel Smiles

The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer to the…

— Samuel Smiles

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

— Samuel Smiles

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

— Samuel Smiles

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

— Samuel Smiles

It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as a rank and power in all stages of society. To…

— Samuel Smiles

“Many are the lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless as powerfully influenced civilization and progress as the more fortunate Great whose names are…

— Samuel Smiles